tourist

It’s summer and if you live in a place where tourists gravitate, you can’t help but encounter some people who ask some very dumb questions. If they’re from a different country, they may not even speak your language. Nor will you speak theirs.

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OK, most people at one time or another have had a wee too much to drink. But how drunk does have someone have to be to decide that a 16-foot-long saltwater crocodile is a horse? Who won the match? Taking bets? Fatso came in first and the man escaped with his life.

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Are tourists destroying tourism? The ones Bob Menconi saw on the lido deck of the Celebrity Solstice were — one heaping plateful at a time.

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In her 30 years in the travel business, Susan Fox of Fox Safaris has been collecting stories — stories of tourists that do incredibly stupid things. “I’ve developed this internal, sort of underground publication for the enjoyment of frazzled coworkers,” she says. She calls it the Tourist of The Year award.

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OK, you’ve got your flights to China and tickets to the opening ceremony, track, cycling and other Beijing Olympic events. You’ve read about the pollution in Beijing, so are you going to pack face masks? That’s a question running through the minds of many travelers going to the Olympics.

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